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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Hallelujah!

“We are born with God
pulsing through our veins!”S. Joan
Chittister writes(Monastic Way, 1/2015).What
a splendid image and feel for the life that surrounds us these Easter days and
which somehow is pulsing within us, too.Having followed the cross as best we could for the 40 days of Lent makes us run to
that emptied Cross now, luminous in white and yellow banners, Easter lilies and
hydrangea.We want to go on those Easter
egg hunts, along with our children—or at least color the eggs that will attract
our attention so that we might search the more for what they mean: life and
love and joy, taste and sound and nourishment.We want to gather it all in, and be gathered in-- the young and the old,
the lame and the runners, the white and the colored, the heavy-laden and those
of teeming spirit, the saints and the sinners!We want to gather, even though we may not do so any of the other Sabbath
days of the year.There’s something about
Easter!May it go on and on and on!God is again pulsing through our veins, in the
meadows’ flowing rivulets, in the sap rising in the maples, in the sun hanging above
us later and later each day.All seems
to call us to stand on high, to notice, to join the dance of our oft-sung
Alleluia choruses: HE LIVES, YOU LIVE, WE LIVE,HALLELUJAH!

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